April 19, 2010

Real earnings in March 2010

Over-the-month percentage change in real average hourly and weekly earnings, all employees, March 2009�March 2010, seasonally adjusted
Month	Over-the-month percent change
Month	Real average hourly earnings for all employees	Real average weekly earnings for all employees
March 2009	0.2	0.0
April 2009	0.1	-0.2
May 2009	0.0	0.0
June 2009	-0.6	-0.9
July 2009	0.1	0.1
August 2009	0.0	0.0
September 2009	-0.1	-0.1
October 2009	0.0	-0.3
November 2009	-0.1	0.5
December 2009	-0.2	-0.5
January 2010	0.2	0.7
February 2010	0.2 (p)	-0.1 (p)
March 2010	-0.2 (p)	0.1 (p)
Footnotes: (p) = preliminary

These data featured in the TED article, Real earnings in March 2010.

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